Free Your Mind

A four-week course in Deptford

Saturday mornings | 3 – 24 Oct | In person, book online

Led by Zander and Livia

Life with Full attention

A Practical Course in Mindfulness

Led by Maitreyabandhu, Amalashri and Jayada

Eight weeks | Starts Wed 4 Feb | 7.15–9.45pm | In person or online

This October, the London Buddhist Centre is coming to Deptford for a four-week course on working with your mind in more creative and expansive ways.

Buddhism is best understood not as a religion but as a path, available to anyone, that lets you see past the distortions of self-concern and come into relationship with reality in all its complex beauty.

Most of the time, the infinite possibilities of the mind remain hidden behind incessant, habitual thought. Yet a life beyond that is within reach. Much in the way a musician learns to tune and play their instrument, you can learn to work with your mind.

We will show you how. Alongside the Buddhist teachings, you will learn the foundations of meditation — so you can live with greater freedom, openness, and love.

Location: The Albany, Douglas Way, Deptford London SE8 4AG

Structure of the Course

Week 1

A Bigger Vision

A bigger vision for life is possible — one born not of the story we’ve told ourselves, but of our own direct experience. This week we look at what Buddhism is pointing towards, and how we might begin to live it.

Week 2

Coming Back to the Breath

How do we work with, and move beyond, suffering? This week we turn to the Buddha’s first teaching, and to the Mindfulness of Breathing — the foundational Buddhist meditation practice.

Week 3

Energised Calm

There’s a paradox at the heart of practice: the harder we try to let go, the tighter we hold on. This week we explore how to balance effort in meditation — neither too tense nor too slack — allowing a state of energised calm to arise.

Week 4

Receptivity

We experience the world on conditional terms — selecting what we allow in and what we push away. This week we open towards life through the Metta Bhavana, the cultivation of loving-kindness: a practice that shifts our centre of gravity away from self-centredness and towards unconditional love.

Is this course for me?

Newcomers and experienced practitioners are equally welcome. Buddhism is, after all, about starting afresh — again and again — so that you keep discovering the deepest truths about who and what you are.

Each week builds on the last. The course works best taken as a whole, but it's fine if you can't make every session.

By the end of the course you will have all the tools for a lifelong meditation practice.

We hope to see you there!

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